Miniature bowling game and ash tray



March 18, 1952 NAGEL ETAL 2,589,725

MINIATURE BOWLING GAME AND ASH TRAY Filed Oct. 2, 1946 2 SHEETS-SHEET-2FIG. 5

imam tot Patented Mar. 18, 1952 MINIATURE BOWLING GAME AND ASH TRAY JohnD. Nagel and Walter Lang, Chicago, 111.; said Lang assignor to said Nagel Application October 2, 1946, Serial No. 700,682

1 Claim.

The object of our invention is to provide a novel, ornamental andintegral miniature bowling game and ash tray which can be usedconveniently either as a game or as an ashtray, which takes up littleroom and which is useful for both purposes. We attain these and otherobjects of our invention by the device illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of one form of our invention, a portionbeing shown in horizontal section;

F Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 2-2 of Fig. 3 is a top planview, partly in section, of a modified form of our invention, and Fig. 4is a transverse section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Like numerals designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, we

' provide an annular trough I in the channel 2 of which a ball 5 isrollable. The trough I includes a peripheral wall and an inner annularwall spaced therefrom, the upper surface of the devic comprising ahorizontal wall disposed in alignment with the top of the trough andconstituting the bottom of an ashtray 3 provided with a peripheral wallll. Pins 4 project radially from the outer wall of the trough Iwithwhich they preferably are integral. The upper surface of the devicewhich is secured to the bottom surface of the ashtray 3 is a transparentannular disk 6 providing a closure for the channel 2, across the centerof which disk extends a bridge portion comprising a suitably printedscore board 1, as shown in Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 2, the annular channel 2 has a relatively elevatedbottom surface 8 with spaced depressions 9, opposite each of theradiating pins 4 which extend outwardly from the outer wall of thetrough I. The miniature ball 5 will therefore tend to stop opposite oneof the numbered radiating pins 4 when the ashtray is tilted, to causethe ball to roll.

Scoring is very similar to that in ten-pin bowling. As in ten-pinbowling, if the ball stops on the numeral 10 at first try, the player isawarded a strike. Each player has two chances for a spare; that is, ifthe ball stops on any number under 10, the second ball must stop on thenumber to aggregate the necessary pins'to make ten and the player mayalso be awarded a spare if the second roll falls on the 10-pin. If aplayer scores a spare" on the first two tries, 10 points are added tothe number of pins on the next number thrown. Likewise, if a strike isrecorded, with the first try, 10 points are added to the total pins ofthe next two throws.

A special advantage of this improvement in p the miniature bowling ballgame is that the ball cannot be lost as it is retained within theannular trough by the cover disk .or closure 6.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, we providedepressions ID on opposite sides of the central score board strip 1 sothat in whichever position the device is placed, these depressions I0may be used as ashtrays.

What we claim is:

A game device comprising a base including a substantially verticallydisposed peripheral wall, an annular wall spaced from said peripheralwall and forming an annular channel therebetween, the upper surface ofthe bottom wall of said channel being provided with a plurality ofradially extending and uniformly spaced depressions, a. plurality ofradially extending simulated bowling pins secured to the outercircumferential surface of said peripheral wall in axial alignment withsaid depressions and corresponding in number thereto, indicia on saidbowling pins identifying the associated depressions, a ball freelymovable within said channel, a horizontal wall disposed in alignmentwith the top of the walls of said channel and formed integrally withsaid annular wall, and a transparent cover for said channel comprisingan annular disk overlying said peripheral and annular walls andincluding a centrally located bridge portion comprising a scoringportion secured to said horizontal wall.

JOHN D. NAGEL. WALTER. LANG.

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